Let's look at the surface rt (also if it has a really low market share in the tablet worldwide market), it has destroyed the others wrt-tablet. Look at microsof

Let's look at the surface rt (also if it has a really low market share in the tablet worldwide market), it has destroyed the others wrt-tablet. Look at microsoftnok... ehm, nokia. They are pratically a branch of microsoft and infact they have discouraged other competitors to join the windows phone ecosystem. It means that, if microsoft starts to make its own hw also for the pcs market, there will be a big problem for other manufacturers to stay in the same market. Apple may live in a world where it is they only manufacturer for the hw in which runs his sw because they have create the first recognized brand in the world and they are like the "cool people of tecnology", but microsoft can try it? Looking at the actual marketshare of wp8 and surface RT or PRo, i think nope.